10 BULLETIN 337, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The share cropper produced $816, the share renter $1,005, the cash 
renter $983. This difference in productivity may be duc in part to 
the relative size of the holdings cf the different classes of tenants, but 
is more directly attributable to the greater amount of family labor 
and hired labor employed by the renters, since the value of the addi- 
tional crop produced by the labor is greater than the wages paid. It 
may also be that cash renters and share renters, as a class, are more 
industrious than share croppers. 
EABOR INCOME IN RELATION TO METHOD OF RENTING. 
Table Vi shows the number and the percentage of each class of 
tenants whose labor income fell in each specified group, and the aver- 
age labor income for each group. The accompanying chart (fig. 2) 
presents the percentages graphically. 
“Taste VI. 
Labor income. 
_ Class of tenants. Total.| _ _,.| Un- | $100 | $200 | $300 | s400 | $500 | $600 | $700 | sso0 | $900 | s1,000 
= der | to to to to to to to to to | and 
- 1$100. | $199. | $299. | $399. | $499. | $599. | $699. | $799. | $899. | $999. | over. 
Number having each income, 
Alb iensnis 878| 18] 35| 105| 194] 209|-123] 62] 39] 34] 19 9 31 
Share croppers...-..- 445 1 12 57 123 143 61 26 12 6 YW ieacin Se 2 
Share renters....... 136 4 7\ 20°} = Sth 954 4 0 8 8 5 1 4 
Cash renters........ 297-1. A311, 464 28 |. 50 S0pl a 26) 1 ON eb ed 8 25 
Per cent having each income. 
All tenants. ........ 100.0] 2.0} 4.0] 12.0 | 22.1] 23.8] 14.0] 7.1] 4.4; 3.9] 2.2] 1.0 3.5 
Share croppers...-..-}| 100.0 SQN Qed | AZ5S [52766 s2k 1327) SyS 25 7a ads 50 theese a) 
Share renters. .....- 100.0] 2.9] 5.1|14.7]15.4]18.4)16.9] 7.4] 5.9] 5.9) 3.7 7 3.0 
Cash renters .....-.- 100.0} 4.4] 5.4] 9.4/]16.9]13.8] 13.1] 88] 6.4] 67] 4.0] 2.7 8.4 
Average income for each income group. 
All tenants. -....---- $392 | $64 | $63 | $156 | $249 | $345 | $447 | $542 | $649 | $746 | $857 | $950 /$1, 344 
Snare croppers......} 333] 126 68} 162] 250) 342) 447 | 536 | 648 | 752] 887 |.-.... 1, 455 
Share renters. .-..-- 398 77 62| 154) 256] 3438] 447) 542) 626] 750) 847 910 | 1, 220 
Cash renters -...---- 478 56 59 | 146] 245] 354| 448 | 547 | 656] 743] 856! 956 | 1,355 
Only one of the share croppers had a deficit during the year, that 
is, received less for his share of the cotton than the value of his family’s 
labor, and only 2.7 per cent of them made less than $100; the great 
majority of the share croppers (86.3 per cent) had labor incomes of 
between $100 and $499, and only one-tenth of them made as much as 
$500. Of the share renters 2.9 per cent reported deficits and 5.1 per 
cent positive incomes of less than $100; about two-thirds made 
between $100 and $499, and more than one-fourth made $500 and 
over. In the case of cash renters 4.4 per cent lost money and 5.4 
